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Duke Places 10th at Battle in Beantown
9/26/2014 5:13:00 PM | Cross Country
JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. -- The Duke women's cross country team, competing for the first time in nearly a month, placed 10th among a competitive field at the 2014 Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown Friday. The Blue Devils positioned four of their five scoring runners in the top 65 en route to a team score of 259 points over the five kilometer course at Franklin Park.
“We were in a highly competitive field, one of the top fields in the country,” head coach Christine Engel said. “I think that experience for some of our student-athletes will help us as we move forward in three weeks to Wisconsin. We're looking forward to taking this experience with us over the next three weeks of training and coming out of Wisconsin with a more solid team effort.”
Michigan, the top-ranked team in the nation, won the event with a score of 55 points, while No. 5 Georgetown (77), No. 14 Syracuse (134), No. 16 Boston College (192), No. 25 Dartmouth (207), No. 18 Providence (211), New Hampshire (244), Harvard (250), Cornell (254) and Duke rounded out the top 10.
Graduate student Jessie Rubin helped guide the Blue Devils to their 10th-place finish, clocking a five-kilometer time of 17:39 and crossing the line in 22nd place. Sophomore Wesley Frazier, in just the second collegiate five-kilometer race of her career, averaged 5:44 per mile over the 3.1 mile course to finish 36th overall in a time of 17:51.
Duke's third and fourth finishers, junior Anima Banks and sophomore Hannah Meier finished within two seconds of one another, as Banks crossed the line in 59th place with a time of 18:09. Meier finished in 64th place with a time of 18:11.
Sophomore Haley Meier, serving as Duke's fifth runner, placed 90th overall, in a time of 18:28.
The Blue Devils return to competition Saturday, Oct. 11, remaining in-state for the Royals Challenge in Charlotte, N.C.
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